                  APOD: 2018 April 28 - Magellanic Mountain

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                                2018 April 28
                                      [2]
                             Magellanic Mountain
              Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Carlos Fairbairn [4]

Explanation: Flanked by satellite galaxies [5]  of the Milky Way a volcanic
peak rises from this rugged horizon. The southern night skyscape looks toward
the south over Laguna Lejia [6] and the altiplano of the Antofagasta Region of
northern Chile [7] . Extending the view across extragalactic space, the Large
(right) and Small Magellanic Clouds [8]  are so named for the 16th century
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan [9] , leader of planet Earth's first
circumnavigation. The larger cloud lies some 180,000 light-years, and the
smaller 210,000 light-years beyond the mountaintop. Left of the Small Cloud of
Magellan and also reflected in the foreground watery shallows on that starry
night, 47 Tucanae shines [10]  like a bright star [11] . A globular star
cluster that roams the halo of the Milky Way, 47 Tucanae is about 13,000
light-years away.

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